Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 20/05/2025 18:14, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

On 2025-05-20, Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

On 20/05/2025 17:19, David Brown wrote:

While there are some people who, for reasons that still escape
me, prefer C90 over C99

>
I will not fight you, David.

    // For some reason that escapes me, I have a crash.
    char *me(void)
   {
     char reason[42];
     return reason;
   }

Don't give up the day job, Kaz. ;-)
Sure, you can do stupid things in any dialect of C.
I think it was Doug Gwyn who said that if you set out to make it impossible to do stupid things in C, you'll end up making it impossible to do clever things.
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